Posts tagged ‘art’
Andres Herren X Reality Caption
ANDRES HERREN is a young photographer based in zurich, switzerland.
A trip to LA during the summer of 2009 was a life changing experience for him on a personal as well as artistic level. The vibrating city with its many different facets captured his interest. The lowrider scene and the LA CULTURA inspired him a lot.
Mark Jenkins X Street Intervention
Mark Jenkins is redefining sculpture as part of the urban environment. His first book, The Urban Theater, documents Jenkins’s compelling, often disturbing street installations and demonstrates his talent for provoking reactions from passersby. For Jenkins, these spontaneous responses and interactions are an integral part of the life cycle of his works.
Jenkins creates and sets free a colorful cast of characters by way of clear tape casts: the homeless, kids, vagrants, polar bears, and horses (to name but a few) all take their place in the wild, wild urban space, while interacting with the surrounding buildings and public places that provide the context and set the stage. Positioning them around the world, Jenkins’ sculptures have made their way around the world in cities throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Disturbing, humorous, and enigmatic in equal measures, Mark Jenkins enlists his hyper-realistic sculptures into the service of, for example, Greenpeace, as well as for exhibitions, performances, art galleries, and workshops.
The artist’s first comprehensive monograph Mark Jenkins: The Urban Theatre will be released to coincide with his Berlin exhibition Glazed Paradise at Gestalten Space from January 19 to February 26.
Jucapinga X Facing Kabu
Jucapinga has made is show visible to the audience last Friday night in London, with “Facing Kabu”. His dedication and master degrees in mafia studies, gangsters and the goodfellas is pretty evident in his works, so what better place to host a show than an old Police Station. Talk about details. You can still visit the show for the next days, ending this Friday 11th at 7pm. Dont’ miss the opportunity to give it a look in person. Pics inside from the night, as usual, thanks to the great guys at Plasticina.
Via Stick To Target
Francoise Nielly X Colorful Portraits
Françoise Nielly’s massive, colorful portraits are delicious to look at. Even more wonderful – and particularly infuriating to those of us who have timidly dabbled in painting – is to watch her create them. In a beautiful video posted on her site, she, in her confident, strong hand, wields her painting knife shaped like a miniature garden trowel, and makes painting look easy like cake frosting. She paints her vivid, passionate canvases — some as large as 78 x 25 inches (195 x 62 centimeters) – from black-and-white photos, further proof of her unfailing ability to interpret light, shadow, hue and tone by applying brilliant colors and daring strokes.
Born in Marseille, brought up near Cannes and Saint-Tropez, and now living in Paris, Nielly is at home among bold contrast and dazzling light. To add to her likeability, here is the list of her loves: Life, wide open spaces, sushi, blue lagoons, the Internet, humor, books, Paris, New York and Vancouver.
Tuija Seipell, Via Cool Hunter
Todd James’ War Parties
Opening tonight, Todd James: Great Adventure brings a collection of solo works by REAS to Spain for the first time. The exhibition, taking place at Galeria Javier Lopez, features James’ most recent works on canvas and paper. As with all his material, the artist displays a knack for social commentary through cartoon-like figures.
Todd James: Great Adventure will run to November 3, 2010.
Galeria Javier Lopez, José Marañón 4, E-28010 Madrid
(Below) Picture On Walls has released a new print by one of our favorite artists, Todd James, better known as Reas. The “War Party” print is limited to 150 pieces and goes for 125 Pounds on their website. Via Guillotine.
(Below) “Hot Dogs & Hamburgers,” gouache and graphite on paper, 23×31 (2008)
Via High Snobiety and Curated Mag
Cleon Peterson’s Anxiety-riddled World
In Cleon Peterson’s anxiety-riddled world, violence is the status quo. His dystopian scenes evoke Thomas Hobbes’ description of life as war between individuals: “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Many of Peterson’s paintings feature images of hostility removed from any scenery that might bring reason to bear a sense of justness to the brutality; the only context given is the mélange of evisceration coating the floor. In other works, the setting is a cityscape where storefronts only serve to indulge the base narcissism and vice taking place on the streets.
Where one might sense that Peterson’s characters occupy a lawless world, there is rather a significant presence of authorities, albeit wantonly corrupt and perhaps more savage than the civilian population. And while the official’s uniform connotes his mandate for dominance, the real power is vested in an erratic sea of like-minded miscreants that forces outsiders to bend to its will. Deviance is simply the norm, and the displaced individual is forced to navigate this wicked world alone, finding hollow bits of pleasure and meaning in violence, sex, religion and drugs.
Peterson describes his bedlam as “a gray world where law breakers and law enforcers are one in the same; a world where ethics have been abandoned in favor of personal entitlement.”
Check this artist and more at the Joshua Liner Gallery.
Haroshi Skateboard Art
Haroshi makes his art pieces recycling old used skateboards. His creations are born through styles such as wooden mosaic, dots, and pixels; where each element, either cut out in different shapes or kept in their original form, are connected in different styles, and shaven into the form of the final art piece.
To Haroshi, his art pieces are equal to his skateboards, and that means they are his life itself. They’re his communication tool with both himself, and the outside world.
Sugiura’s Dark Forest X Max Protetch Gallery
Keita Sugiura is a promising young photographer who won the Victor Pincheck Award at Geisai Museum #2 and the bronze prize at Geisai #11 in autumn 2008. His sharp yet delicate works, printed on large-sized mat sheets, carry a distinctive darkness, which cannot be expressed on a glossy C-print.
“Forest” is a series of photographs portraying dusky woods, taken immediately before nightfall. While capturing expressions of a dark, tranquil forest, these works also realistically and mysteriously convey its moisture and thick air clinging onto one stepping into it.
